2009 has been a very big year for FOSS with a number of high-profile occurrences and products being released this year. Let’s take a short look at some of these:
- the release of Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.10 as well as Red Hat’s KVM-orientated RHEL 5.4
- the submission of code twice by Microsoft into the open source domain ( both times due to breaches of the GPL license ) – one was for the Microsoft Virtual Server Linux virtualisation drivers and one for the USB Boot tool for Windows 7
- the back-end of Whitehouse.gov was switched to Drupal CMS
- the Apache Foundation celebrated 10 years and 300 members working on 65 projects
- Red Hat was added to Standard and Poor’s 500 stock index
- cloud computing as a business model was born
- Linux showed up in Samsung TV’s, Sony cameras, Motorola cellphones and many other products